It's a farily well known fact that SP1 of XP was noticably slower than the
first version. This is due to MS's development process -- develop
minimal product to support features so it will install on user's
machine, then charge $100/support
call to fix things -- and when they fix things, they use kludges and
patches -- not redesign of code. This way, by the time the next Desktop
version comes out
and has been recleaned -- it will likely run much faster than the
spagetti patched
version MS will have created over the years with their hundreds of security
kludges/patches. MS isn't going to give away performance improvements
-- they'll want you to pay for those, so any fixes for security are
guaranteed to be the minimmum kludge necessary to plug the hole --
attempts at optimizing the code
or redesigning it are normally outside the scope of the update process
-- It's
always a case of first shipping minimally tested product, then charging
customer to fix bugs as they come up. Much more lucritive than old
model where you had a
1 year warrantee to complain about bugs and performance problems. Of
course,
it could be worse -- in the business world, MS now has customers paying
yearly
fees for vaporware -- i.e. no product at all. Everyone once in a while,
MS will
release an upgrade -- but now that the licensing method is in place for
most business customers (I wonder if it's just a matter of time for the
same to happen to consumer OS's) MS doesn't feel the pressure to release
products as quickly, so the next desktop version to replace XP may not
come out until 2005 or 2006.
Meanwhile we can look forward to increasingly slow computer speed as
more and more patches ontop of patches -- tons of kludges get added. :-(
-l
p.s. -- you are lucky at 5 seconds -- I've had it take 30-60 seconds to
come up
and that is with a defragmented PST file, nothing else running and 512M of
RAM. ZZZZzzzzz.....
Turn off Instant Messaging under Tools->Options->Other. It is at the
bottom.
--?
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer
DonG <
[email protected]> asked:
| Outlook 2000 has slowed down considerably taking 5 seconds or more
| when I click a menu item, just for the menus to show up, or when I
| open an email or when I go from an open email back to the main
| Outlook app. It used to be fast. Was wondering if one of those
| updates to XP (Home edition) did something.
|
| Thanks.
|
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